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Definition of mid-Victorian in English:

mid-Victorian

adjective

Relating to the middle of the Victorian era.

‘One of the more powerful images and major concerns in mid-Victorian literature was the young unmarried male, enjoying more free time than his elders and applying himself more to play than to business.’

‘Inspired by Sir Henry Yule's mid-Victorian dictionary Hobson-Jobson, this book might even be better.’

‘Most historians of science have treated Vestiges as a minor remnant of mid-Victorian culture.’

‘A major concern of mid-Victorian Britain was the relationship between art and industry.’

‘As historian Judith Keys Kenny once observed, by mid-Victorian times sheepherding had evolved into a genuine art form.’

‘Whilst one mid-Victorian authority supported this view, it was overturned in a subsequent nineteenth-century decision.’

‘He repudiates the apologetic approach, made popular by Paley in the eighteenth century and still common in mid-Victorian England, that attempted to justify the Christian faith by reasoning from the external evidences of nature.’

‘Middlesbrough, with its dramatic growth in the early and mid-Victorian years, was the starkest example of such a town, and the development of policing therein is of particular interest.’

‘As it stands, John Baines as an allegory for mid-Victorian England only reinforces the significance of Bursley's wakes, Wombwell's Menagerie, and imperial modernity.’

‘The initialled stone tablet probably marked the completion of a pair of river regulating reservoirs built in mid-Victorian times.’

‘Humanity might well have found crushing, at times, the requirements of moral responsibility and constant self-improvement imposed by mid-Victorian ideals of Christian duty.’

‘What if he doesn't feel that way at all, and he takes some kind of mid-Victorian umbrage at my ‘brazen’ act?’

‘Individualism, self-respect, self-reliance, and the organization of voluntary and co-operative societies were the keynotes of mid-Victorian liberalism.’

‘The characters debate many mid-Victorian issues, often criticizing the misuse of science.’